The “Paper Airplane Distance Challenge” is coming to the Fondy Cardinals basketball games on Friday, January 25, 2019 at the Acuity Fieldhouse at Fond du Lac High School. In this double header game with the boys varsity team playing at 6:00 p.m. and the girls varsity team following, there will be a number of family-friendly activities and events throughout the night including the “Paper Airplane Distance Challenge” and the “Fold […]
A Fond du Lac funeral home director has died after his ATV broke through thin ice on Lake Winnebago. The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office says 55 year old Peter Zacherl was in a group of three other people on the lake west of the Fond du Lac River about 9:30pm Monday when his ATV went into the water. A second ATV operated by Zacherl’s 23 year old son, […]
Another winter storm moving into Wisconsin is expected to dump several inches of heavy, wet snow in our listening area. A winter storm warning is in effort for southern Wisconsin including Fond du Lac and Dodge counties from 9am Tuesday until noon Wednesday. National Weather Service meteorologist Aidin Kuroski says snow is expected to fall starting Tuesday afternoon with the heaviest snowfall in Fond du Lac and Dodge counties expected […]
There was a happy ending after a Waupun toddler was found on the front steps of a home where she didn’t belong. Waupun police chief Scott Louden says police officers were called last week to a residence in the 200 block of North Madison Street. Louden says the two year old child was transported by ambulance to the hospital for observation and police canvassed the neighborhood to try to find out […]
The executive director of the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin says she is pleased a federal judge has struck down early-voting restrictions enacted by Republicans in a lame-duck legislative session. League director Erin Grunze told AM 1170 WFDL's Between the Lines program that efforts should be made to make it easier for people to exercise their constitutional right to vote, not to make it harder to vote. The restrictions […]
Fond du Lac Republican state representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt says a state surplus should be used to pay for a middle class income tax cut. Republicans and Democratic governor Tony Evers agree on a $340 million income tax cut that targets the middle class, but the difference is in how they’re paid for. Thiesfeldt says he disagrees with governor Tony Ever’s plan to cap tax breaks under a manufacturing and agriculture […]
CAMERON, Wis. (AP) — Residents of two Wisconsin communities gathered for a church service to give thanks for the safe return of a 13-year-old girl who was abducted and her parents were fatally shot. Jayme Closs escaped from the man accused of holding her captive for nearly three months on Jan. 10. The suspect, 21-year-old Jake Patterson, is charged with kidnapping Jayme and killing her parents after breaking into their […]
MENOMINEE, Wis. (AP) — Four people were injured in the weekend crash of a small plane in Menominee County, but all four are expected to survive. They were traveling from the Waupaca area to Iron Mountain, Michigan, on Saturday morning when their single-engine plane went down near a county highway. The pilot and one passenger were taken to an area hospital. The cause of the crash wasn't immediately determined.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Madison police say a 34-year-old man who thought his wife damaged his action figures retaliated by taking an ax to the family's car, television and laptop in the house. Madison Police Chief Mike Koval says the man called police just after 10 p.m. Sunday and told them he had too much to drink and overreacted about his action figures. The man's name was not released. He […]